Sound weird but this is true!
Google just explored a new way to boost kids brain. In an effort to introduce secondary school and high school students to open source software development, Google has announced the Google Highly Open Participation Contest at the Open Source Developer’s Conference in Brisbane, Australia.

Yup, students can compete for prizes such as cash and t-shirts; ten grand prize winners will receive a chance to visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, Ca. The contest features tasks that fall into the categories of code, documentation, research, outreach, quality assurance, training, translation, and user interface.

Google is working with ten open source organizations for the pilot effort to come up with a list of tasks to be completed by the students. The organizations include: Apache Software Foundation, Drupal, GNOME, Joomla!, MoinMoin, Mono, Moodle, Plone, Python Software Foundation, and SilverStripe CMS.

Want to know more about this?
Well go to Devwebpro.com and you can read more about it.

Maybe I’m not good in this field but what I can say is many bloggers now love to talk about this topic. As we know, bloggers are a group of people that loves to share all kind of info and that’s why today I really want to share my own opinion on this.

Actually, being a blogger is not an easy job as what you taught. Maybe you will say blogger is just a person who like to get online all over the time but the fact is, blogger also can be your best partner to get some info that might interest you. In a certain case, blogger can turn themselves as a “notice board” and if you’re reading this post, then you are pointing your eyes to another new “notice board” on your monitor.

The only different is what kind of info that you will read today in this blog?
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Have you ever seen this fantastic product?
It’s a pipe music wirelessly to every room in your house and when you’re finished setting that up, send the tunes out to the garage and to the hot tub.

The system supports up to 32 Sonos ZonePlayers throughout your home–from the bedroom to the backyard. Expansion options include additional ZP100s, or you can choose additional ZP80s, which don’t have a built-in amplifier but instead connect directly to your home theater or stereo systems. You can also add more Sonos controllers to give more people access to your music library.

There is also internet radio and having a subscription to Rhapsody, where you will be able to listen anything you want to at any time. As you can see, I am a big fan of SONOS!

Well, this is one of my favorite questions since I become a blogger. I always want to know others people earnings because I just love to do it. I don’t have any spesific reason for this but all I know, it always motivate me to work hard on my adsense earning each time I ask to others people (specially if I know they got more higher than me).. ahakssss.

Actually, I am not a blogger who earn more than USD1000 per month from adsense like you. I’m just a normal blogger who earn around USD100-USD200 per month. But I always learn how to increase my CTR. Latest, I try to use my eye mapping technic and it works! Now I can get average USD2.00 to USD3.00 on a daily basis. The only thing that I always do with my adsense earnings is SHOPPING!!!
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Who is Jorn Barger?
Do you know him?

(pic courtesy of wired.com)

Nevermind, the only thing that you should know is Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term “weblog” Dec. 17, 1997 — 10 years ago Monday — to describe the daily list of links that “logged” his travels across the web. In the decade hence, Barger feels that he’s gained some wisdom of his own about blogging. Here are Barger’s top 10 tips for novice bloggers.

1. A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)

2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.

3. If you spend a little time searching before you post, you can probably find your idea well articulated elsewhere already.

4. Being truly yourself is always hipper than suppressing a link just because it’s not trendy enough. Your readers need to get to know you.

5. You can always improve on the author’s own page title, when describing a link. (At least make sure your description is full enough that readers will recognize any pages they’ve already visited, without having to visit them again.)

6. Always include some adjective describing your own reaction to the linked page (great, useful, imaginative, clever, etc.)

7. Credit the source that led you to it, so your readers have the option of “moving upstream.”

8. Warn about “gotchas” — weird formatting, multipage stories, extra-long files, etc. Don’t camouflage the main link among unneeded (or poorly labeled) auxiliary links.

9. Pick some favorite authors or celebrities and create a Google News feed that tracks new mentions of them, so other fans can follow them via your weblog.

10. Re-post your favorite links from time to time, for people who missed them the first time.

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